September 11th Dev Update

The team

We are very glad to welcome Javascript
developer Yury (@gagarin55). Yury has a broad and diverse background in blockchain
technology and applications, and has been a longtime steady and vital force in the ETC community.
He’s wasted no time in providing a myriad of firm, yet gentle, refactorings, fixes, and new features for
Emerald Wallet.

In addition to @gagarin55 we got Alexey @sudachen, who has joined just today. He has been working in software development
industry for more than 20 years. He has a huge
experience in Virtual Machines and Virtualization, Cybersecurity and Antivirus tools, etc. He is going to
work on our Geth, SputnikVM and Emerald project.

The projects

Geth

Implemented ECIP-1017 monetary
policy protocol changes in the 4.0.0 release.
We spent a lot of time on testing new Monetary Policy, even created a special tool
that allows us and a anyone else to run a simulation of the new Monetary Policy (with a real Geth and Parity nodes
of course) and check that it’s working by yourself. More about this tool and the process how we were testing it
in one of the following articles. If you use Geth, please upgrade!

We were also working on other features and improvements, including
establishing a machine-logging system (as yet unreleased) for use with log parsers/+analysis, e.g.
Filebeat/Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana. Please keep in
mind that we’re still working on improving monitoring and logging, and there will be a separate release focused on this
features as soon as we’ll finalize the format and instruments.

Emerald Vault + CLI

Refactored Emerald Vault into two packages: Emerald Vault now
contains the Emerald business and security logic, and Emerald CLI
now contains the user-facing CLI application connected with Vault. This separation of concerns should pave the way
for smoother future-feature implementations and core and Dapp developer experiences.

ETCDEV Team is an independent team of software engineers and professionals in software development,
who work full time on core Ethereum Classic projects, to make it most convenient and powerful blockchain